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Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bagley, Edythe Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African American women political activists--Biography.
- African American women political activists.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Perry County (Ala.)--Biography.
- Perry County (Ala.).
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.
- King, Coretta Scott.
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006--Influence.
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006--Political and social views.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor. Coretta Scott King-noted author, human rights activist, and wife and partner of famed Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.-grew up in the rural Alabama Black Belt with her older sister, Edythe Scott Bagley. Bagley chronicles the sisters' early education together at the
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Soil
- Slavery
- Scotts and McMurrys
- Perry County
- pt. 2. Seed
- Parents
- A Black Man in a White Man's World
- Opposition
- pt. 3. Bud
- Crossroads School
- Lincoln School
- Antioch College
- Becoming Coretta
- Progressive
- Graduation
- Boston
- Martin
- Marriage
- pt. 4. Blossom
- Montgomery
- The Bus
- Boycott
- Christmas 1955
- Bombing
- Staying
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Atlanta
- Albany
- Birmingham
- Fire Hoses...and Dogs
- Bombs
- Washington, D.C.
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- St. Augustine
- Selma
- Freedom Concerts
- Watts
- 1966
- Memphis
- pt. 5. Fruit
- April 4, 1968
- Friday
- Memphis March
- The Funeral
- Finishing Martin's Business
- 1969
- Coretta's Agenda
- Building the King Center
- Sweet Auburn and the Historic Site
- The United Nations and Apartheid
- The Holiday
- Coretta and Atlanta's Creative Community
- Coretta
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8612-2
- OCLC:
- 780443461
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